Workshop: Electron Beam Technical Conference Focused on Science, Applications, and Design Considerations, Summer of 2017 at Fermi Lab, Illinois.

研讨会：电子束技术会议，重点关注科学、应用和设计考虑因素，2017 年夏季在伊利诺伊州费米实验室举行。

• 批准号: 1635881
• 负责人: Frederick Bloetscher
• 金额: $ 5万
• 依托单位: Florida Atlantic University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2017
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2017-03-15 至 2018-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1635881&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Workshop; Electron; Beam; Technical; Conference

1635881BloetscherTo modernize and improve the infrastructure of wastewater treatment plants, now referred to as resource recovery plants, a 2-day workshop is proposed to be held in Summer of 2017 at the Fermi Lab, Illinois of US Department of Energy (DOE). This workshop, focused on environmental engineering, is follow up to findings from a DOE Workshop on Energy and Environmental Applications of Accelerators held on June 24-26, 2015 at the Argonne National Laboratory, Illinois That workshop explored research and development opportunities for high-impact applications of accelerator technology to address energy and environmental challenges in a broad sense. This proposed workshop would bring together 75 - 100 key stakeholders and focus on identifying one aspect of infrastructure innovations for resource recovery plants of the future.The following topics will be covered; Track 1) understanding the science behind electron beams, Track 2) priority applications of electron beam technology, and, Track 3) design considerations, with the overall workshop, with the goal of soliciting discussion towards the development of a research roadmap that will describe the technology to the engineering community and open the door to potentially transformative design approaches for specific, high impact applications. A concluding session to summarize the findings will be captured via proceedings that the chair and organizing committee will publish on-line as open access. The workshop will advance knowledge in developing the science needed to bring potentially transformative electron beam technology into widespread practice by addressing the potential barriers and opportunities in the environmental sector. Techniques for accelerating electrons under a field of high-voltage has been applied in industrial processes; however, no applications of this technology have been implemented for environmental issues, except at one flue-gas application in Poland and now due to issues with the accelerators this is not operational. From an intellectual merit perspective, electron beam technology has the potential to address a number of environmental quality and treatment concerns related to sludge, air pollution, and wastewater treatment. Efforts to evaluate these benefits have been limited by the lack of familiarity with the technology, lack of design experience, or lack of anticipated costs. Therefore, this workshop will deliver a plan that will allow academics and industry to have access to knowledge of design considerations, cost data, and process modeling results to present to the next generation of engineering graduates and professionals. One of the most important aspects of past exploits of the electron beam technology, was that when this process was first applied the single biggest factor against adoption was capital cost. At present, accelerator costs have been reduced to about 25-30 % of what they were in 1980. Comparing 1980 costs to present day costs, as an example, in 1980 the Miami-Dade Virginia Key Wastewater Treatment plant installed a prototype electron beam at a cost of $1.79 million for 75 k-watts of beam power, today, it is possible to obtain 450 k-watts of beam power for $2 million, a considerably lower cost. A collaboration with the Water Environment & Reuse Foundation (WERF) where they have identified the electron beam process as a potential solution to many of the issues facing land application of wastewater sludge (biosolids), and, as a possible pretreatment for anaerobic digestion of waste for energy neutral and/or energy positive resource recovery facilities of the future is a critical aspect of the outreach of this workshop.

为了现代化和改善废水处理厂的基础设施，现在被称为资源回收厂，计划于2017年夏天在美国能源部（DOE）伊利诺伊州费米实验室举行为期两天的研讨会。2015年6月24日至26日，美国能源部在伊利诺斯州阿贡国家实验室举办了加速器的能源与环境应用研讨会，该研讨会探讨了加速器技术的高影响力应用的研究和开发机会，以解决广泛意义上的能源和环境挑战。这个提议的研讨会将汇集75 - 100个主要利益相关者，重点是确定未来资源回收厂基础设施创新的一个方面。将涉及以下主题：议题1)理解电子束背后的科学，议题2)电子束技术的优先应用，议题3)设计考虑，与整个研讨会一起，以征求讨论的目标为制定研究路线图，该路线图将向工程界描述该技术，并为特定的、高影响力的应用打开潜在变革性设计方法的大门。总结调查结果的总结会议将通过会议记录记录下来，主席和组委会将在网上作为开放获取方式发布。该研讨会将通过解决环境部门的潜在障碍和机会，促进发展将具有潜在变革性的电子束技术广泛应用于实践所需的科学知识。在高压场下加速电子的技术已应用于工业过程；然而，除了在波兰的一个烟气应用之外，该技术还没有应用于环境问题，现在由于加速器的问题，该技术无法运行。从知识价值的角度来看，电子束技术有潜力解决一些与污泥、空气污染和废水处理有关的环境质量和处理问题。由于缺乏对技术的熟悉、缺乏设计经验或缺乏预期成本，评估这些好处的努力受到了限制。因此，本次研讨会将提供一个计划，该计划将允许学术界和工业界获得设计考虑、成本数据和过程建模结果的知识，以呈现给下一代工程毕业生和专业人士。过去电子束技术最重要的一个方面是，当这一过程首次应用时，阻碍采用的最大因素是资本成本。目前，加速器的成本已经降低到1980年的25- 30%。将1980年的成本与现在的成本进行比较，例如，1980年迈阿密-戴德弗吉尼亚关键废水处理厂安装了一个原型电子束，75千瓦的束流功率为179万美元，今天，有可能获得450千瓦的束流功率为200万美元，成本相当低。与水环境和再利用基金会（WERF）合作，他们已经确定电子束工艺是解决废水污泥（生物固体）土地应用面临的许多问题的潜在解决方案，并且作为未来能源中性和/或能源积极资源回收设施的废物厌氧消化的可能预处理，这是本次研讨会推广的一个关键方面。